Edward Cucuel | Impressionist painter

Born in San Francisco, Edward Alfred Cucuel (1875-1954) was an Impressionist painter of genre and figures in landscapes, often using his family members for models rather than professionals.

A specialty was using a vibrant palette and rich impasto to depict women in sun-dappled landscape settings.

At the age of fourteen, he enrolled at the School of Design in San Francisco, and three years later, in 1892, he went to Paris and studied at the Academie Julian.

In 1893, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a student of Jean-Leon Gerome.

Canaletto | St Mark's Square, Venice - The drawing room of Europe

St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").

All other urban spaces in the city (except the Piazzetta and the Piazzale Roma) are called campi ("fields").

The Piazzetta ("little Piazza/Square") is an extension of the Piazza towards San Marco basin in its south east corner.

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) | Drawing

Edgar Degas🎨, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist🎨 famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers.

He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism🎨, although he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist.

Vladimir Gusev, 1957 | Figurative painter

Russian painter Владимир Гусев was born in the Moscow region. The first teacher of drawing and painting in Vladimir was his father, an artist Sergey Gusev.

But becoming a creative young artist connected with his studies at Moscow State Art Institute VI Surikova, from which he graduated in 1981.

Department of Painting. Gusev teachers at the institute were honored artist of the RSFSR Professor Tsyplakov VG and Associate Professor Zabelin VN In 1983. Gusev, VS was admitted to the Union of Artists.

Stojan Milanov, 1963 | Impressionist painter

Serbian painter Stojan Milanov has been a professional painter since 1985 and member of The Applied Artists and Designers Association of Serbia - ULUPUDS since 2005.

In 2005, he was awarded "Artist of the Year" by Simic Galleries, California.

His themes are human figure and urban landscape, technique oil on canvas.

Graduated from the University of Architecture in Belgrade.

He has participated in many collective exhibitions and art meetings.

Wendy Ng | Abstract / Realist painter

"Painting in the traditional form gives me the opportunity to experiment with the qualities of the paint, the juxtaposition of patterns and textures, to achieve a play of balance and to create rich and inviting paintings" - Wendy Ng.

Chinese born artist Wendy Ng got her education in the United States, Belgium and the United Kingdom and currently based in Australia. Her heart has always desired to study art. She was trained in Art and Design at The Wimbledon School of Art, UK, with a Graphic Design and Illustration background in advertising and publishing.

She paints in the traditional form but takes her ideas further by experimenting with patterns and textures creating a balance between Real-life Art and Abstract Art.

Michael Carson, 1972

Influenced by the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec🎨, John Singer Sargent🎨, Norman Rockwell🎨, Malcolm Liepke🎨, and Milt Kobayashi, Michael Carson is primarily a figurative Artist who likes to tell a story.

His figures usually find themselves in bars, nightclubs, cafes, and jazz clubs; even at home in intimate settings.

Stanislav Plutenko, 1961 | Surrealist painter

Stanislav V. Plutenko was born in Russia. Plutenko studied at the Moscow University of National Economy, taking lessons in painting from private masters. In 1984 he created his first works.

From 1985-1990 he did designer's work in commercial advertising and joined UNESCO's guild of graphic artists in 1991.

In 1997 he was rewarded with the Grand Prix of the «Golden Brush» exhibition.